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This is one of the memorial windows in the west end of the nave, by Edward Payne of Gloucestershire in 1961, of St Francis. The above window is to the south, and to the west another window shows our Lord against a cruciform background and surrounded by acts of Christian workship and work, dated 1968 and also by Payne.

The north side of the nave has three windows, the first and third with 15th century tracery, the second with church warden tracery, perhaps to light the then new squire's pew, circa 1800.

The chancel walls are each pierced with two square-headed windows. The east window is of three lights with a nice hoodmould terminating in scrolls. The east window includes a panel of 15th century work showing two angels and an inscription asking prayers for the soul of Abbot Whitchurch, rebuilder of the church; there are also fragments showing our Lord's head; around are symbols of the Evangelists. In the south chancel wall there is also a priest's doorway with a square hoodmould.

In the older looking half of the south nave wall is a blocked window of 13th century lancet type (invisible inside owing to the plaster); this is presumably part of the earlier church here, retained at the rebuilding.


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